I've found something that seems like a bug, but I'm not sure. However, it is really anoying. Let me explain.

When using the class XoopsFormText, there is a bug with this symbol ' (Sorry, don't know what it is in english...)

For example :
$sform -> addElement( new XoopsFormText( _AM_SB_COLNAME, 'name', 50, 255, $name ), true );

Let's suppose that $name = "Let's go !".

The text box created with the previous code will have this default value : "Let". All the caracters after the ' symbol are autmatically truncated.

Now, I search a bit further. On the page where the text box was display, I checked the Page Source. Here is what I found : the textbox html code looks like this :
<input type='text' name='name' id='name' size='50' maxlength='255' value='Let's go !' />

Do you see the problem now? There's too much of these ' symbols there !

Now, I looked at the code that generate this html, in class/xoopsform/formtext.php :
(...) value='".$this->getValue()."'".$this->getExtra()." />";

Is there something I can do?

Thanks for any help !

In English, that symbol is called an apostrophe, or sometimes a single quote. Try replacing each occurrence of an apostrophe with its HTML entity code:



But remove the spaces in & a p o s ;. I had to use spaces so that it would display here.

Dave_L : thanks for your help !

I've tried the folowing :
$newname = str_replace("'", ''', $name);
$sform -> addElement( new XoopsFormText( _AM_XH_COLNAME, 'name', 50, 255, $newname), true );

$newname = str_replace("'", "'", $name);
$sform -> addElement( new XoopsFormText( _AM_XH_COLNAME, 'name', 50, 255, $newname), true );

$newname = str_replace("'", "''", $name);
$sform -> addElement( new XoopsFormText( _AM_XH_COLNAME, 'name', 50, 255, $newname), true );

$newname = str_replace("'", "'''", $name);
$sform -> addElement( new XoopsFormText( _AM_XH_COLNAME, 'name', 50, 255, $newname), true );

All without any success. Do you have another idea ?

Thanks for your help !

Since the HTML entity won't display "as-is" here, it's hard to tell exactly what code you used.

I had to edit my post above (several times) to fix it. Please recheck that you're using the latest one.

And it is working my friend !

Thank you very much !

Regards !

I just checked the PHP manual. A "cleaner" method might be to use the PHP function htmlspecialchars: